58,837 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.7% since 2020)
641 square miles of land · 92 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
4 active community water systems list Russell County in the area they serve, reporting 77,676 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PHENIX CITY UTILITIES surface water · local government · AL0001142 | 44,712 served |
| RUSSELL COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0001145 | 17,577 served |
| FT MITCHELL WATER SYSTEM, INC. groundwater · local government · AL0001137 | 14,400 served |
| HURTSBORO WATER & SEWER BOARD groundwater · local government · AL0001139 | 987 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 283 people were held in Russell County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 749 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 228.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
2 school districts have their office in Russell County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $94.3 million — $88.5 million to run schools, about $12,259 per student, plus $2.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22.4 million local (mostly property tax), $62.8 million state, $20.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $64.3 million.
Spent $52 million — $45.1 million to run schools, about $12,199 per student, plus $5.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.6 million local (mostly property tax), $32.6 million state, $12.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $23 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Russell County about $14.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
205 bridges in Russell County: 70 in good condition, 129 fair, and 6 poor (2.9%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| SR 26 over KING BRANCH · built 1926 | 1,490 vehicles a day |
| SR 26 over BRANCH · built 1926 | 1,060 vehicles a day |
| 28TH AVENUE over TRIB HOLLAND CREEK · built 1960 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
| US 431 over HATCHECHUBBEE CREEK · built 1939 | 420 vehicles a day |
| CO 137 over UCHEE CREEK · built 1925 | 357 vehicles a day |
| CO 83 over BRUSH CREEK · built 1917 | 80 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $21.6 million of work in Russell County in fiscal 2025, about $365 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Alabama are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Russell County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Russell County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Chattahoochee County, GA (24 mi) · Muscogee County, GA (24 mi) · Lee County (24 mi) · Stewart County, GA (25 mi) · Macon County (30 mi) · Quitman County, GA (31 mi).